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Historical Monthly Stock Market Data is Pretty UselessPragmatic …

There’s an endless parade of articles and pundits today discussing the historical monthly returns of September.  It’s not a very good month historically.  But we see this stuff every few months.  In January the media will run with the “January effect”.  Then in May they’ll pump the “sell in May” story.  Then in September they’ll pump the scary September stories.  Then […]

How GE Is Using Big Data To Drive Business Performance …

General Electric – a literal powerhouse of a corporation involved in virtually every area of industry, has been laying the foundations of what it grandly calls the Industrial Internet for some time now.But what exactly is it? In this post I will try and give a basic overview of the ideas which they are hoping will transform industry, and how […]

Big Data to Drive Business Performance | SmartData Collective

General Electric – a literal powerhouse of a corporation involved in virtually every area of industry, has been laying the foundations of what it grandly calls the Industrial Internet for some time now.But what exactly is it? In this post I will try and give a basic overview of the ideas which they are hoping will transform industry, and how […]

Splunk Makes a Splash in Big Data – Morningstar

Total revenue growth remained strong, at 51.9% year over year to $101.5 million, 9.7% ahead of our forecast. Splunk doubled the license capacity for entry-level customers and lowered the price of Splunk Cloud by 33% during the quarter, helping to drive sales growth and keep the company apace with new competitors. We view these pricing moves as responses to customer […]

Big Data One-to-One Marketing Myths | SmartData Collective

Big Data has a lot of potential for true personalized one-to-one marketing. Combining different data sets to create a detailed view of your customers is a powerful tool to increase your sales and increase your conversion rates. Combining customer data with social data and mobile data, the ‘Data-triangle‘ as I explained earlier, can provide you with valuable customer insights. Quite […]

Five Factors In Building Giants Of The Big Data Era | TechCrunch

Editor’s note: Navin Chaddha is managing director of Mayfield, an early-stage venture capital firm. Some of the companies he is currently championing include Gigya, Elastica, Lyft, MapR and Poshmark.As we enter the second half of 2014, it would be fair to say that big data has gone mainstream, attracting coffee table books, multiple industry landscapes, consumer applications, and large amounts of […]

Big Data Turns Tennis into Music – NY1

In an attempt to make the US Open even more dramatic than it already is, IBM has a tool that turns tennis stats into music. NY1’s Adam Balkin filed the following report.Might seem like something a high school math teacher tells his or her students in order to get them more enthusiastic about numbers but really, for the past few […]

Given Time, 'Big Data' Promises to Transform Patient Care — AAFP …

With limited time and a heavy patient load, physicians face a daunting task trying to identify a patient’s multiple needs during a single office visit.Now, growing implementation of electronic health records (EHRs) and other health information technology, combined with rapidly evolving clinical analytics techniques, promises to make this task easier. By collecting and analyzing data that present a more comprehensive, […]

Make Sure You're Getting Maximum Value from Your Big Data

Everyone is talking about the amazing insights big data can deliver, but simply having massive collections of data isn’t enough. Having big data without the ability to process it efficiently and properly is like having a warehouse full of ingredients but no ovens in which to create delicious products.Big data should earn its keep, and it can’t do that in […]

5 Signs Your Business Is Not Ready For Big Data – Blog – CQL

Big data has become the big thing recently and seems to be all anyone is talking about (besides it being the year of mobile, of course). By “big data,” we mean a concentrated effort to gather intelligence about your business so you can accomplish a deeper analysis.The fanfare isn’t unwarranted, though. Big data allows you to get a better understanding […]